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A smooth, sustained contraction resulting from very rapid stimulation of the muscle, in which no evidence of relaxation is seen, is called (a) a twitch, (b) temporal summation, (c) multiple motor unit summation, (d) fused tetanus.
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Contraction elicited by a single brief stimulus is called (a) a twitch, (b) temporal summation, (c) multiple motor unit summation, (d) fused tetanus.
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